I am driven by a desire to create a vibrant learning culture. I am a caring person and have a high regard for the well-being of all individuals whilst being uncompromising in expecting the highest standards of myself and others. These are challenging and exciting times for St Matthew’s and I intend using all my experience, skills and contacts to ensure that our children are taught by the very best teachers and have access to the most up-to-date resources.

I am a parent and therefore know how precious every child is. I am committed to working in partnership with parents and know that by working together we will ensure that every child enjoys school, is happy and has the opportunity to thrive and achieve their best.

I will be keeping the messages to children simple, respect your learning and the learning of others. Most importantly all pupils will be told by me that I expect them to respond appropriately to any reasonable request from an adult in school.

I look forward to meeting you all and being of service to our school community, as we embark on a period of great and exciting change.

Helen Murden

Headteacher

Welcome to

St Matthew's RC High School

Welcome to our school website. We hope that you find the website interesting and informative and that it gives you a flavour of who we are as a Catholic learning community.

St Matthew’s is founded and sustained by the truth of the Gospel and the teaching of the Church. It is our faith which gives shape and meaning to all we do.

We believe that we are partners with families in each child’s journey of faith and foster this by creating a unique spiritual development programme to nurture their spirituality. We are proud to be a Catholic school, and greatly value the fruitful partnerships with our primary schools, sixth form colleges and parishes.

Our school mission statement can be summarised as ‘pray, care and achieve’ and we encourage and enable all our pupils to make real that mission statement in their own life and that of the school community.

We are a community made up of dedicated staff and motivated learners. Pupils are relentlessly challenged to achieve the best that they can. At St Matthew’s we value each pupil as unique and special, made in God’s image and likeness. We do all we can to make sure they are happy, feel safe, work enthusiastically, make excellent academic progress and contribute to improving the school and the wider community.